radically revised definition of torture that hovers over these papers and has reshaped the civil liberties we cherish” (Strozier‚ par. 1). This one horrific day of September 11th has brought confusion‚ horror and the loss of many. In the speech George W. Bush made‚ “Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People‚ Sept. 20‚ 2001‚” he began to try to rationalize and justify his decision to prepare for war by stating‚ “Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom
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Joshua Darnell Hillard Composition I 17 April 2008 Dr. MacVaugh A Much Needed Change: FEMA & Hurricane Katrina It has been almost three years since the catastrophic hurricane winds and water of Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast. New Orleans was the most damaged city and media coverage showed the outcries of the neglected people. Many feel that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is to blame and‚ rightfully so. FEMA is a very disorganized and dysfunctional agency;
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Research Paper Over two hundred thousand juveniles are tried as adults every year. Yes‚ the saying “You do the crime‚ you do the time‚” may evidently need to be set in stone for every criminal‚ but a child? To make this country fair the United States of America needs to stop prosecuting and putting teens on trial as adults. Ignorance of not knowing the law is not an adequate excuse‚ that may be necessarily true‚ but if the country wants to be considered “fair” then the court system needs to understand
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The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by Congress as a response to the terrorist attack of September 11. On October 26‚ 2001 The USA PATRIOT Act (Public Law No. 107-56) was signed into law by President George W. Bush. The USA PATRIOT Act "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” this law enabled law enforcement personnel new abilities to search‚ seize‚ detain‚ or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorists as it states in our text
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Iraq invasions The Iraq war was a horrible thing. It caused many things to happen. I’m against going to war with them because there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as the US government claimed. One of the main reasons listed by George W Bush for the war was to secure Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons‚ which did not even exist. Secondly‚ there were no terrorists in Iraq‚ and Iraq had no connection to Sept. 11. We should have focused our resources in Afghanistan where the real terrorists
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in the war in Iraq is debated. Two presidents who had to lead and deal with these wars were President George Washington Bush who was in office from 2000 to 2008‚ and current President Barack Obama who came into office 2008 and is currently in office. Two administrations created by the following Presidents were the Bush administration and the Obama administration created by President George W. Bush and Barack Obama respectively. The legitimacy of these wars in these respective countries is on the minds
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The summer of 2005 was tragic and heartbreaking for residents that once lived in the gulf coast. New Orleans in particular was damaged the most by strong winds and massive flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina. Many still hang on to the memories they once had. Some try to forget‚ but for others the damage is still there. Not only did the victims or Hurricane Katrina lose their homes‚ belongings‚ and loved ones but they lost a piece of mind. Will these people ever get back what they lost through government
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was utilized to provoke military response. The attack of September 11 is a modern replay of this attack. George W. Bush leapt into the war against Baghdad in 2003 with the same attitude of Woodrow Wilson in the Great War. One of Wilson’s reasons for going to war against Germany was based on his belief that his country’s victory could birth democracy and peace in foreign lands. George Bush agrees with this principle; this is proven in how he attacks Baghdad’s dictatorship with the aspiration to
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Imagine if you cast a ballot in the last election and after you cast your ballot you find out that the President was chosen by 538 delegates each from all different states. This is reality and that process is called the electoral college. The electoral college should be abolished because it does not reflect the common Americans opinion‚ also the process has not worked as there were many unqualified Presidents‚ finally‚ the delegates that elect the President are all very partisan towards their party
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This is when the Supreme Court becomes active in political decisions which have been made; there is one example of a history changing decision which has been made which is probably the best example when the Supreme Court intervened too much in the Bush vs Gore 2000 election. The Supreme Court said that there was to be no recount and that the
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